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Neither the lingering effects of a nagging toe injury nor the fresh shot of pain traveling through her elbow and buttocks as a result of a hard crash to the court kept Kahleah Copper from putting the Rutgers women's basketball team on her back in the most pivotal minutes of the season.

Copper scored 18 of her team-high 22 points in the second half Saturday afternoon as fourth-seeded Rutgers overcame a six-point halftime deficit and earned a deceptively difficult 68-49 victory against fifth-seeded Southern Methodist in the American Athletic Conference Tournament quarterfinals at Mohegan ...